Music is such an odd thing when you think about it - behind an image until you take it away, and then you realize a movie sounds blank without it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.
In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me.
The experience of a film is immersive, and music is supposed to underline and help that experience.
I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.
Sometimes when you have a song, you listen to it and say, 'It's OK. It's music to drive to.' But then there are songs where you can actually hear it as a movie.
When you go into something like a space movie, you think there's going to be no music or little music.
With bad movies, I have this image in my head of the director and the editor in the editing room watching a scene that is not happening, looking at each other and saying, 'Put some music in there.'
When you're editing the film, you use a temp track. So you're putting music in there for a rough cut to keep track of what's going on. It can be a hindrance if wrong, it can be an enormous asset if you get it right.
The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.
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